Aris Venetikidis: Making Sense of Transit Maps

In this TED Talk, Graphic designer Aris Venetikidis is fascinated by the maps we draw in our minds as we move through a city – less like street maps, more like schematics or wiring diagrams, abstract images of relationships between places. Can we learn from these mental maps to design real maps? Aris talks about his research into transit maps, and shows his design evolution of the Dublin Rapid Transit Map. (16:35 min)